Additional Notes on the Drifts of the Baltic Coast of Germany

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I. Introduction We quitted Rügen in 1898 with no expectation of ever seeing it again. But after completing the paper which has appeared in the Society's Quarterly Journal, we felt the usual desire of once more going over the work. When there seemed a possibility of gratifying this, we should have withheld our paper, if a special reason had not existed for an early publication of our views. We determined, however, in 1899 to cover a wider field and to examine not only Arkona (which want of time had prevented us from visiting), but also some sections at Warnemünde which we expected to prove very different from those in the Jasmund district. This was the case, though they were not exactly what we had been led to anticipate. In looking for papers on Rügen we unfortunately missed a small monograph by Dr. Rudolf Credner (‘Rügen: Eine Insel-Studie,’ 1893), which would have been very useful as a clear statement of one view and as containing a list of the literature after 1886. He considers that in the Arkona and Jasmund areas (but not universally) the ‘Diluvium’ is naturally separable into a lower member consisting of two greyish-blue boulder-clays with an intervening bedded sand; and an upper one, of boulder-clays, gravels, and sands, which is unconformable with the other. He regards the boulder-clays as true ground-moraines; the sands and gravels as produced from these by denudation. The dislocations to which he attributes the peculiar association of the Chalk and the Lower Drift

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